FANTASTIC OFFERS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 237, 5 September 1945, Page 5

FANTASTIC OFFERS

GEN. MACARTHUR'S MEMOIRS. NEW YORK, Sept.' 4. Fantastic offers are being made to .General MacArthur by the Press and film and radio organisations, says, the Washington correspondent of the New York Hera'ld-Tribune. It is said that the financial inducements already suggested total more than 1,000,000 dollars. . ' There is much speculation about General MacArthur's plans, but it is generally agreed that he will not stay in Japan over three years, and, after seeing the occupation over the worst hurdles, will hand over.to an efficient subordinate and retire from the army. Some of his friends say the General will settle down in Washington and write his version of the many controversies in. which his name has figured since he last set foot in the United States in 1937. Publishing houses want exclusive rights to General MacArthur's me--moirs, and they would pay generously for articles' by his wife, as well as "ghosted" articles by his eight-year-old son. Radio chains are in the bidding. Chain stores and life insurance companies want the General for executive posts, and newspaper syndicates have their bids. Another theory is that General MacArthur will retire to the Philippines, where he had extensive pre-war business interests.